SAN ANTONIO — There is a strong possibility Texas’ twice-delayed primaries will take place May 29 after a federal court on Tuesday released a new set of interim Texas House and congressional maps for the 2012 election.

If there are no more legal challenges to the maps — or if the three-judge panel rejects any more challenges — there would be some changes for the Texas House districts Republicans Charles Perry of Lubbock and Jim Landtroop of Plainview represent.

Landtroop would run in District 88 — minus Carson County — and Perry’s District 83 would regain Mitchell and Scurry counties but would no longer include Crosby, Floyd, Garza and Kent counties.

District 85, which Landtroop currently represents, would be relocated to a three-county area in the Houston-Victoria region.

Unless the U.S. Supreme Court rejects the latest set of maps, Tuesday’s proposal stands a better chance of survival because Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and some of the plaintiffs said they can live with the latest lower court’s decision.

“The new interim maps issued late (Tuesday) are a substantial improvement from maps previously issued by the San Antonio court,” Abbott said in a statement. “As a result of the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous, clear direction to the district court, these new interim maps more accurately reflect the decisions of elected Texas legislators.”

Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, which represents several plaintiffs, echoed those sentiments.

“The interim congressional redistricting plan complies with the mandates of the Voting Rights Act by creating two additional Latino-majority congressional districts,” Nina Perales, lead redistricting attorney for the group, said in a separate statement.

“Therefore, this litigation has achieved what the state of Texas failed to include in its legislatively-enacted congressional redistricting plan — districts that recognize the significant population growth of Latinos in Texas,” Perales said.

Gov. Rick Perry said he was just as pleased.

“While we believe the original maps drawn by the Texas Legislature were fair and legal, I am pleased we finally have maps that enable us to proceed with our elections,” Perry said in a statement.

The big question Tuesday was whether some of the plaintiffs unhappy with the latest maps will file another court challenge.

“The new court-ordered interim plans demonstrate once again that the maps passed by the state Legislature discriminated against Latinos and other minority voters,” said Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, D-San Antonio and chairman of the Mexican American Legislative Caucus, also a leading plaintiff.

Members of the Panhandle/South Plains legislative delegation most impacted by the latest maps said they are hopeful the latest boundaries, which are basically the same as the one Republican-dominated Texas Legislature approved in last year’s session, will remain unchanged this time.

“I think it’s great we have a map and an election date,” said Landtroop, who is facing three primary challengers in the district stretching from Lipscomb County in the northeastern corner of the Panhandle to Yoakum County in the South Plains, a distance of about 400 miles from corner to corner.

Charles Perry, who is being challenged by former Rep. Delwin Jones, R-Lubbock, said he now looks forward to a May 29 primary.

“The process worked; it just took a little bit of time,” Perry said.

State Rep. Four Price, R-Amarillo, said he is hopeful he’ll keep Carson County in District 87 and relieved the Texas primaries may be on May 29. In the previous map Carson County was placed in Landtroop’s district.